Ode To Peace. - Written On The Night Of My Mistress's Grand Rout.

Oh Peace, oh come with me and dwell -     But stop, for there's the bell.     Oh Peace! for thee I go and sit in churches     On Wednesday, when there's very few      In loft or pew -     Another ring, the tarts are come from Birch's.     Oh Peace! for thee I have avoided marriage -     Hush! there's a carriage.     Oh Peace! thou art the best of earthly goods -     The five Miss Woods!     Oh Peace! thou art the goddess I adore -     There come some more.     Oh Peace! thou child of solitude and quiet -     That's Lord Dunn's footman, for he loves a riot!      Oh Peace!     Knocks will not cease.     Oh Peace! thou wert for human comfort plann'd -     That's Weippert's band.     Oh Peace! how glad I welcome thy approaches -     I hear the sound of coaches.     Oh Peace! oh Peace! another carriage stops -     It's early for the Blenkinsops.     Oh Peace! with thee I love to wander,     But wait till I have showed up Lady Squander,     And now I've seen her up the stair,     Oh Peace! - but here comes Captain Hare.     Oh Peace! thou art the slumber of the mind,     Untroubled, calm and quiet, and unbroken, -     If that is Alderman Guzzle from Portsoken,     Alderman Gobble won't be far behind.     Oh Peace! serene in worldly shyness, -     Make way there for his Serene Highness!     Oh Peace! if you do not disdain     To dwell amongst the menial train,     I have a silent place and lone,     That you and I may call our own;     Where tumult never makes an entry -     Susan! what business have you in my pantry?     Oh Peace! but there is Major Monk,     At variance with his wife - Oh Peace!     And that great German, Vander Trunk,     And that great talker, Miss Apreece;     Oh Peace! so dear to poet's quills -     Oh Peace! our greatest renovator;     I wonder where I put my waiter -     Oh Peace! but here my Ode I'll cease,     I have no peace to write of Peace!